Truthmaker semantics for natural language: Attitude verbs, modals, and intensional transitive verbs
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عنوان ژورنال: Theoretical Linguistics
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1613-4060,0301-4428
DOI: 10.1515/tl-2020-0010